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rob: i agree.lations, the only people that are going to be working in philadelphia today. thank you for showing up. all right, dodge under fire for super bowl ad using martin luther king's jr. speech to help sell trucks. >> recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your sister, that's the new definition of greatness. by giving back definition of greatness it means that everybody can be great. rob: a lot of over the top commercials, it's a truck ad, many chiming in online felt that it was inappropriate to use iconic civil rights speech to try and sell pickup trucks, the spokesman for estate of dr. martin luther king saying that it approved and embodied. carley: that's settled. the time now 25 minutes after the hour, kneeling was a nonissue at the super bowl but black lives matter made sure to inject politics into the big game, game rather, the protest going off the rails. rob: during half-time show is a star is born, everybody is talking about. ♪ ♪ that's why there's otezla. otezla is not

rob: all right. right, brad taking the checkered flag in the first nascar race of the season. >> brad from last to first wins the clash of daytona. rob: wow, last to first. leading team to sweep of top two finishers earning the win, the clash at daytona. jillian: ryan finished second, setting the stage for daytona 50 this sunday, the first official race of the season. congrats to all. rob: yes, a lot of winners this morning. jillian: i know. it's fine. we are not concerned at all. good morning to you, it is 8 minutes after the hour, the media smitten over kim jong un's sister at the olympics glamorizing a dictatorship, the reality of what that regime is capable of next. rob: critics to president trump for not immediately releasing the democrats' rebuttal memo. >> donald trump was quick to release and promote his chief house republican devin nunes russia memo. >> no transparency. rob: all right, who is really playing politics with national security? our political to debate this on both sides coming up

john kelly fought for rob porter's job. reports indicate that john kelly was actively fighting to save rob porter's job after all of these accusations became public, including the one punch black eye. because for john kelly, apparently, one punch isn't enough. one black eye photograph of one former wife of a white house official, was not enough for john kelly. that's why he fought today to save rob porter's job. wasn't enough. yesterday rob porter said -- he said this in response to the daily mail's first story, i will not comment about these matters beyond stating that many of these allegations are sand rous and simply false. that was yesterday. today, in announcing that he will give up that job and as the "new york times" is reporting, give up that job tomorrow, at the white house, after maybe a full day at the white house. rob porter issued this new statement saying this, these outrageous allegations are simply false. i took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago, and the reality behind them is nowhere close t

rob: thank you very much.promised, fox news alert, live look at the house floor where the vote on the budget is underway. carly: we are seeing people on the house floor, they are voting, 141 eas for republicans, 41 nays, live update next. rob: three democratic eas so far but in the course of the morning and the course of the last week, the republicans really want to get to that 150, 160 mark and curious to see if they get there. 70 democrats is enough. with that, we are going to go to a commercial. we will see you back here in two minutes. ah, it's so fresh. and it's going to last from wash to... ...wear for up to 12 weeks. unstopables by downy. on thousands of hotels, cars and things to do. like the papaya playa project for 49% off. everything you need to go. expedia. everything you need to go. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ with three extrairst absorb channels.r they stay up to three times drier so babies can sleep soundly all night pampers rob: fox news alert, house vote underway. carly: let's go to chad, what is going on? a litt

rob porter. the allegations made against rob porter, as we understand them, involve incidents long before he joined the white house. therefore they are best evaluated through the background check process. it's important to remember that rob porter has repeatedly denied these allegations and done so publicly. that doesn't change how serious and disturbing these allegations are. they're upsetting. and the background check investigates both the allegations and the denials. the investigation does not stop when allegations come to light. it continues to determine the truth. we should not short circuit an investigation just because allegations are made, unless they could compromise national security or interfere with operations at the white house. the truth must be determined. and that was what was going on with rob porter. his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied and he resigned. to summarize, the allegations against ro

rob porter, might he has lied to the fbi? would the fbi having picked up this information from his wives go back to rob porter as the subject of the investigation ask him about that? but as a fact finder when john kelly is sitting there, getting this information for the first time in the white house, this is not just information that the wives picked up through some unofficial channels. john kelly, to not believe them, has to believe that they were willing to commit the crime of lying to the fbi. >> you're exactly right. this information comes to the white house counsel and to the chief of staff filtered through the fbi background process. it's a federal felony, a federal crime to make a material false statement in a matter that's within the jurisdiction of the executive branch. and a backgrounding exercise, where fbi agents go out and interview both someone who seeks a position and everyone involved in their background would be a qualifying proceeding. so for kelly to discount the stories that come from the wives and exgirlf

rob porter. there's no place for domestic violence in our society. if he didn't know, that's also a problem. >> we don't know exactly how much he knew. apparently he was supposedly told in november. again, here is the trouble. kelly defined his job as managing an information flow to the president. he said, i'm not here to manage the president. i'm just here to do this limited thing. well, by his own limited definition, he has failed clearly. this is the latest example of it. it's not enough just to make the trains run on time in the west wing, to be a good chief of staff, you also have to be able to walk into the oval office, close the door and tell the president what he doesn't want to hear. he should have had that conversation with donald trump about rob porter. >> chris, good to see you. the book is the gatekeepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency. always an important book. probably more important than you read it now. >>> tomorrow marks the deadline for donald trum

let me talk about rob porter.b porter, as we understand them, involve incidents long before he joined the white house. therefore, they are best evaluated through the background check process. it's important to remember that rob porter has repeatedly denied these allegations and done so publicly. that doesn't change how serious and disturbing these allegations are. they are upsetting. and the background check investigates both the allegations and the denials. the investigation does not stop when allegations come to light. it continues to determine the truth. we should not short circuit an investigation just because allegations are made unless they can compromise national security or interfere with operations at the white house. the truth must be determined. and that was what was going on with rob porter. his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied, and he resigned. to summarize the allegations against rob porter are serious and deeply t

and rob is abusive, and rob is flawed and definitely has anger.ght also suffer from depression and the anger is the outlet for that, but he's not a monster. and he's not an abuser in that that is what he should be defined as. i don't believe that. >> even though he was -- you say he was abusive. >> yes. >> and his former wife says he was abusive? >> yeah, and the reason i think i'm able to say that and feel that is ultimately, i do believe in redemption, and i do believe if or when rob is ready to do the work he needs to do, he can be -- he can be a good man and he can be redeemed. that's not on me and not on me to own, and i don't want to seek to judge or to hurt somebody who is in that position because god forbid somebody judge me and the mistakes i have made, and in the life choices that had brought me to where i am. >> jennifer willoughby, thanks so much. anything else you want to say? >> no, no. thank you for having me. >> thank you, jenny. we'll continue the conversation with our panel in just a moment. we'll be right back. [burke] vengeful

rob: he had shearhill. rob: ed shearn this morning.r another continuing resolution to keep it open as we keep kicking the can down the road? our producers love talking about government shut down because it almost never happens. i'm being very sass car stick. jillian: make sure you stay here on fox news. we will keep you updated on everything. first the good,ed bablegd and the bulling. first the good. a soldier dad surprising his young son as his classmates sing proud to be an american waving american flags. watch this. >> daddy. >> that staff sergeant who had been serving overseen since june. awesome. rob: now the bad. these are nacho average burritos. i had to think about that. these are stuffed with 17 pounds of meth each. lapd found them a man's car along with a gun and cash. the guy was arrested and, of course, thrown in jail. that is a lot. jillian: finally the ugly, police thought they were earning their stripes in 45-minute standoff with escaped zoo animal. turns out thing that thing was stuffed. that's a stuffed tiger. scottish

rob is abusive and rob is flawed and definitely has anger. i think he might also suffer from depression and the anger is the outlet for that, but he's not a monster and he's not an abuser in that that is what he should be defined as. i don't believe that. >> even though he was -- you say he was abusive -- >> yes. >> and his former wife says he was abusive. >> yeah. and i think the reason that i'm able to say that and feel that is because ultimately i do believe in redemption and i do believe that if or when rob is ready to do the work that he needs to do, he can be -- he can be a good man and he can be redeemed and that's not at on me and it's not on me to own and i don't want to seek to judge or to hurt somebody who is in that position because god forbid somebody judge me and the mistakes that i've made and in the life choices that have brought me to where i am. > >>y -- jennie willoughby, thank you so much. is there anything else you want to say? >> no. thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. next time, i want you on my bowling team.

that got no coverage. >> at the time he talked about rob porter saying he's rob porter saying he's innocent. >> he did not say that. >> he said he pointed to rob porter saying he is porter saying he is innocent. i want to talk to kirsten gillebrand. it's not surprising he doesn't believe survivors or understand the conversation. if he wants due process for the dozen allegations against him let's have congressional hearings tomorrow. >> george, let me say something. those accusers have had their day on your network and elsewhere for a long time. they were trotted out again last year. i don't need a lecture from kirsten gillibrand who harbored a sitting president who had sexual relations in the oval office and was impeached for lying. i don't need a lecture from her or anyone else. she since of course has said that president clinton had resigned. let's call this what it is. that's a democrat party bereft of any ideas and accomplishments. everybody that's happened has happened without them. in the course of month her democratic party voted to shut down the government, sat on their hands when p

rob: what is for breakfast?ter: biscuits and gravy, best i ever had in my life, at holly's home cooking, breakfast with friends this morning talking to the people, not the pundits as we always do, yesterday we stopped outside cincinnati at the shepherd corporation where donald trump spoke to those employees, we spoke to some of those employees who received a $1000 trump bonus and here's what they had to say about that. >> tax reform is helping me anytime i can get more money in my pocket and seems to be doing a lot better, we are really busy right now so those are all good things. >> $1000 bonus some call breadcrumbs, what do you spend that on? >> bills, getting caught up, starting the year ahead. >> our businesses trended up right now. more requests, more orders, orders from customers we haven't heard from in quite a while so business is picking up. >> to a man or woman they were insulted by the idea that $1000 is breadcrumbs, we will talk to one of those employees who received a bonus, she will be with us at 7

so general kelly knew rob porter in a professional sense tan in his row fegsal setting rob porter wasy impeccable. in his home life he was anything but that. once that came to light the general made a very clear statement. that domestic violence. >> but he didn't. >> is never okay. >> he knew about it since last fall and didn't launch an investigation into it to even to determine the claims veracity. so he sees him in one light, very different picture as being portrayed. the guy has access to all this classified information. i mean, shouldn't it, if kelly was doing his job, have merited some sort of investigation? >> well, listen, no, i think he did not know that damming information. because he's not that kind of man. i think here's the thing, let's get to the crux of it, erin. what's really going on with general kelly? i think the left is trying to make him into the newest boogie man. they are trying to -- >> doing it to him self. >> steve bannon. grim reaper in the white house. here's the reality about general kelly, this man has given his life to our country literally. he's a battl

porter from two exwives. >> rob is abusive and rob is flawed and definitely has anger. >> in his first response president trump downplays the allegations and defends the accused. >> he i think you have to remember that. >> no sympathy for the women. no public defense for his chief of staff. will kelly keep his job? has president trump made his problems with women even worse? tough questions ahead for kellyanne conway. we'll break down the politics, smoke out the spin. the facts that matter this week. >> good morning. two white house aides resign charged with abuse by their former wives. president trump defending the men rallying against mere allegations that ruin lives. that fits a pattern for president trump. behind the scenes he is seething. his team is cracking. the knives are out for john kelly and the president's closest personal aid, hope hicks. a staff shake-up is looming. just another week in the trump white house. >> we certainly wish him well. it's obviously a tough time for him. he did a very good job when he was in the white house and we hope he has a wonderful career. >> t

rob: diehard eagles fan wake up, "fox and friends" first continues right now. ♪ ♪ rob: today is the daye anchor with her team, a super bowl champion, that is the question. jillian: what happened a minute ago? can we have the capability to find that somewhere? rob: had to keep you excited and cheerful in case your team loses. jillian: it was like stand up full on dancing all over the set. rob: tried to make them smile on a friday. you are watching "fox and friends" first on friday. jillian: thanks for starting the day with us. happy groundhog day. we want to get to a fox news alert, donald trump releasing of a highly classified memo alleging abuse to you, the american people today. >> the war on transparency reaches a fever pitch. griffin comply with the newest attempt to discredit this report. >> reporter: some people dancing, memo friday is here, democrats are not happy. the president is expected to allow the memo's release, americans deserve transparency and answers to fbi abuse raising questions whether fbi officials misled a court to get a fisa memo that led to the more investigatio

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rob: rice hasn't of february 22nd to respond.for the russia probe, we are learning former fbi director james comey told lawmakers last march michael flynn did not lie to the fed. according to the washington examiner, comey believes the former national security advisor was telling the truth when asked about contact with the russian ambassador. he was a report contradict special counsel robert mueller who charged flynn with lying to the fbi, no evidence the trump team colluded with russia. the illegal immigrant and 7-time felon acquitted in the shooting of kate steinle is expected to plead not guilty to federal gun charges today, facing one count of felony possession of a firearm and one count of illegal immigrant in possession of a firearm, felony possession was the only conviction in a november trial, the jury sentenced an accident, he faces ten years in prison. attorney general jeff sessions doubling down on efforts to stop them is 13 telling law enforcement officers in washington dc his goal is to wipe the notorious gang off am

say enough good things about rob porter. john kelly is lying about being shocked by the second day of accusations against rob porter because multiple news organizations have reported that the fbi told john kelly in november what they had discovered about rob porter in their background investigation. some saying he learned in september. and john kelly chose to ignore what the fbi told him. "the washington post" is reporting late tonight that the fbi told white house counsel don mcgahn one full year ago in january of 2017 about the domestic violence accusations against rob porter and that mcgahn did nothing about it. colby holderness show odd her photographs of her black eye to the fbi a ear ago. don mcgahn knew there were photographs. john kelly knew there were photos. the fbi would have no reason not to tell john kelly what they knew. don mcgahn had no reason to tell john kelli what he knew about rob porter. so john kelly decided not to believe what the two women told the fbi. does that mean that john kelly decided that thos

let's talk about rob porter. the allegations involve incidents long before he joined the white house. therefore they're best evaluated through the background check process. it's important to remember that rob porter has repeatedly denied the allegations and done so publicly. that doesn't change how serious and disturbing these allegations are. they're upsetting. the background check investigates the allegations and the denials. the investigation does not stop when allegations come to light. they continue to determine the truth. we should not short circuit an investigation just because allegations are made unless they could compromise national security or interfere with operations at the white house. the truth must be determined. that is what was going on with rob porter. his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. the clearance was never denied as he resigned. to summarize the allegations against rob porter are serious and deeply troubling. he did deny them. the in

rob: finallily the ugly. find his 8-year-old son stuck in a suitcase. attempt to smuggle him in to spain. the judge let the man go with a small fine. apparently not convinced that he knew that the kid was in there? jillian: what? i have so many questions. rob: some questions. jillian: thanks for joining us this morning. if you live on the east coast, get out there and enjoy the warm weather while we are going to have it today. rob: according to janice, it's going to be very warm. "fox & friends" starts right now. see you later. >> i signed a memorandum to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns. >> the fact that the president stepped up suggests that there is consensus on the republican side that this is something that ought to be looked at. >> house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes is demanding answers to find out what president obama and his cohorts knew. >> we have found collusion. we found collusion between the democrats and the russians. >> everybody wa

say enough good things about rob porter. john kelly is lying about being shocked by the second day of accusations against rob porter because multiple news organizations have reported that the fbi told john kelly in november what they had discovered about rob porter in their background investigation. some saying he learned in september. and john kelly chose to ignore what the fbi told him. "the washington post" is reporting late tonight that the fbi told white house counsel don mcgahn one full year ago in january of 2017 about the domestic violence accusations against rob porter and that mcgahn did nothing about it. colby holderness show odd her photographs of her black eye to the fbi a ear ago. don mcgahn knew there were photographs. john kelly knew there were photos. the fbi would have no reason not to tell john kelly what they knew. don mcgahn had no reason to tell john kelli what he knew about rob porter. so john kelly decided not to believe what the two women told the fbi. does that mean that john kelly decided that thos

bonnie: yesterday rob. rob: no.: great to have you on the program as we wrap up a volatile week. a very resilient week for global credit. , bonnieers of pgim wongtrakool of western asset management, and rob waldner of invesco. this is "bloomberg real yield." this is bloomberg tv. ♪ >> it is 1:00 in washington, 6:00 in london, and 2:00 in hong kong. julie: welcome to "bloomberg markets: balance of power." focusing on the intersection of politics and the economy. market turbulence. u.s. stocks selling off on a day of swinging between gains and losses. investors live tour the weekend to catch their breath. washington gets its act together. republicans and democrats get enough consensus for a budget deal but at a cost of $300 billion in annual deficits. and republicans used to compare -- complain about obama deficits, and now rand paul wonders now if they are only conservatives when they are not in power? julie: breaking news, stocks lower yet again, although off the lows of the session, still setting up for the worst w

defenses of rob porter. white house officials including ivanka trump praised hope hicks. and the president put out a statement saying hope is fantastic. capri: i have never met her. she may be a fantastic individual. it is a difficult circumstance. she was romantically involved with an individual who was a coworker, and all these allegations about abuse of ex-wives have come out. there are two separate issues. is hope hicks competent at her job? the view of those inside the white house is yes. she does a good job. the other question is is it appropriate to be involved with somebody else you work with. ed: should she be involved in this story. her personal life is her personal life. howie: we have another story about another white house aide, a former speech writer, david sorenson who resigned friday as the white house was pursuing abuse allegations from another ex-wife. he was gone pretty quickly. the "daily mail" broke this story and had both wivessen the record -- both wives on the record with these allega

and rob porter was not fired. he did not leave. i was told that there were some discussion about it. but that john kelly felt that porter at the time, because things were in such flux and so chaotic inside, that he wanted porter to stay. because he had become so invaluable to kelly in terms of the regular job of staff secretary which means moving around very important paper all day long, interagency classified information and so forth. but also he began acting almost as a deputy chief of staff, really integral to the kelly -- kelly chief of staff -- >> and he was promoted. he became more important in the white house over the last several months and not less important and matt lewis when kelly learned more by reading the press and he knew a bunch of it already, not only did he not fire rob porter, he asked him to stay. and he put out a glowing endorsement of him. you call this extremely disappointing and political malpractice. these are two separate issues but explain our feelings on this. >> even after john kelly saw this photo of

. >> and secondly, you have said that rob porter was terminated twice in the briefing, is the white house saying he was fired? >> i mean the process by which your employment status ends is termination. >> lastly on that, you said there are things the white house could have done better with respect to this, can you please detail them? what could the white house have done better? >> again, i'm not getting into ticktock detailed specifics. i think a lot of individuals were involved with the white house response to this, and a lot of us could have done better. >> thanks, clarifying about the two questions for you, so rob porter was not fired by the trump administration. >> resigned, and we accepted resignation. >> to follow up, you spoke with the president about these allegations this morning. can you give us a better idea about the concerns president had? this is a gentleman who was in the oval office close to the president, numerous times throughout the first year of the administration, what did the president specifically say about allegations in. >> he was surprised. we did not see what th

rob:ery early or very late, 4:00 on the east coast, you are watching "fox and friends" first this thursday morning. let's get to a fox news alert. brand-new bombshell in the uranium one scandal. the fbi informant at the center of this controversial deal breaking his silence with explosive testimony that connect hillary clinton and russia and not in a good way. >> the suspicion swirling around uranium one exploding overnight. campbell is the informant and in written congressional testimony obtained by the hill he said russian nuclear officials told him moscow hired an american lobbying firm for $30 million hoping to influence hillary clinton. at the center of it all the clinton foundation. campbell testified, quote, assistance free of charge to the clinton global initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to assure the obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from uranium one to the us/russia nuclear cooperation agreement. >> telling the fbi ag

he made a comment on rob porter. he also can have sympathy, r respect, and compassion for the millions of victims of victims of child abuse and drug abuse. if cnn or anyone else wants a serious kergs about them and use our platforms to really take a bite out of these scourges, give me a call, i work first and fore most on the opioid crisis. the budget being released tomorrow is bringing in $6 billion. >> is that enough? >> it is more than we have ever seen it it will bring treatment, law enforcement, education, and prevention. we need to tackle all three at once. we need to get those drugs and keep them out of our country and communities, but we also have to help the people already addicted and in need of medicated assisted treatment, and we have to educate everyone that the tric tri trickiness, that what is in mom and dad's medicine cabinet is l harm you. >> porter's second wife said she is worried about hope hicks, take a listen. >> it worries me for a lot of reasons. first, if i'm being frank with you. if he has n

this situation can't die with rob porter., you've got 34% of your staff that have been bled off, often under a cloud of suspicion. you have an ongoing clearance issue with intelligence matters. they made classified information on how it's handled a big deal. they did it with clinton. they're continuing it now with this bs about the fisa courts, even though they're congressionally created as an oversight mechanism. the biggest reason, mark preston, do you believe that today is the day that the president of the united states says, listen, i support the victims of domestic abuse? that has to be said by the moral leader of this country. >> the reason it has to be said and will be said, it's 180 degrees. >> won't go away. too big a deal. >> of course it's going to keep going. the bottom line is what's going to change today that hasn't changed every other day in president trump's life? the fact is he's going to stick by his own guns, allows others to give support for these women. but we're in the going to hear it from him. if he do

porter is because he knows rob porter.r worked for him. they said he doesn't know these two ex-wives, so why would he be tweeting about them? the women also said that it's not the president's place to play judge and jury in an investigation and in a situation like this. and, anderson, i also asked these women about the fact that the president has supported other men who have been accused of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault such as roger ailes, bill o'reilly of fox news, and also roy moore of the alabama senate race. and they said to me the only reason they believe the president supported roy moore was for the good of the party, so he could hold on to that republican senate seat despite these disgusting allegations against him. they said that was only for the good of the party, anderson. >> randi kaye, thanks very much. >>> up next, the conflicting white house stances on accused domestic abuser rob porter and the questions about a possible cover-up. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he

he saw far more classified information as obama's rob porter, same job as rob porter, than did he at. so this is a job, this man couldn't get full clearance. leave aside the women which is horrible. this is the donald trump white house so no one cares about women. look at the national security implications. look what he's now done to the president. i mean, it's really kind of stunning. >> and you got -- you've got -- jarrod kucher jared kushner doe have a permanent clearance right now and a reality tv star that shows up at meetings where sensitive information would be discussed and it's a small place. you overhear things when you're in the white house. you have omarosa who is now on a reality show whispering secrets. >> yeah, scaring people. >> you have porter and jared kushner who doesn't have a permanent one either. this is reporting tonight. it's from "the new york times." president trump called reince priebus to express dissatisfaction with john kelly. the idea that president would confide grievances over mr. kelly with the person he pushed out to hire mr. kelly is yet another in

that's what rob porter did. so this is a person handling, i assume, top secret documents, as well as lots of other information. john kelly knew that the security clearance was held up. he is either the least curious person this history not to look into that, given had a rob porter's job was, order didn't want to know the answer. >> the great concern was that an individual with that back ground can be stoub blackmail. >> absolutely. that's why the fbi makes its findings clear. it doesn't adjudicate them. that's up to the white house. think about it. we wouldn't know about any of this if wasn't for the daily mail. wasn't like this had come out. wasn't like the white house was forthcoming with this information. it was the reporting on it. >> that's what led to it. >> stick around. don't go too far away. there's more news. a potential breakthru on the peninsula. i no wondering, "what if?" uncertainties of hep c. i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for

rob: thank america for being with us.u are watching "fox and friends" first on this tuesday. rob: thank you for starting your day with us. blaming the obama administration for not doing enough to prevent russian election meddling. jillian: several states consider returning to paper ballots to avoid outside interference. rob: the latest on that as moscow's response to the russia investigation. >> reporter: this is a shocker, kremlin denying any involvement on a conference call to journalist, a spokesman said no proof moscow interfered in a 2016 election, donald trump pointing to the last administration as failure to act when it began in 2014 tweeting obama was present up to and be on the 2016 election. why didn't he do something about russian meddling? this has several secretaries of state and security officials met in washington to discuss the meddling. >> that was a million-dollar month operation. the idea of the resources we are working against. >> the biggest threat seems to be the american public be leaving false stor

the last hours in the white house for ex-staffer rob porter. what he's telling people now about his resignation is different than what's coming from the west wing. how that drama unfolded next. >> the president's tweet yesterday was more generic. >> defending the defender and chief talking about hae meant about due process for those accused of domestic abuse. plus conway weighs in on whether she feared for hope hicks's safety after accusations of abuse by porter. >> gives point by point why the republican memo has a lot of false assertions and also in general just leads the reader into a false direction. >>> what's the hold snup? why the president won't release the new homy and if the public will ever so see it and if so, when? >>> today the white house pushing back on president trump's failure to acknowledge the alleged victims in his tweet yesterday. >> when the president is saying talking about did you process, he's right in this way, we are a country of laws, there's due process, that's absolutely correct. but we as individuals have a duty

new details in the abrupt departure of rob porter. you have probably never heard of him before today, but he was chief of staff john kelly's right-hand man. he quit today in a cloud of spousal abuse allegations, allegations he's denying. if the white house hoped this story would disappear quickly, it has not. questions are being raised about who in the white house knew about the allegations, when did they know and whatdied they say to the public about them? also, there are questions about how porter got access to classified material, despite being denied a security clearance. we begin our coverage with jeff zeleny from the white house. john kelly and porter worked very closely together. what do we know about how much the chief of star actual lly kn? >> reporter: rob porter's job was to control what the president sees and what he doesn't see in the oval office. he was a way to instill john kelly's west wing discipline. we're told that john kelly knew about this for months. rob porter today said it was part of a coordinated smear campai

rob: finally the ugly.t when her mom chooses a college on national signing day. >> i'm taking my time. >> there goes mom. jacob picking the university of florida. mom wearing alabama shirt and tennessee hat. she was not happy with the choice. you can tell. there she goes. all right that will do it for us. jillian: this is fun. rob: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> senate leaders say they now have a deal. top democrat is threatening to derail it? >> the package does nothing to protect dreamers. the package cannot have my support. >> shutting down the government would be very damaging to the military. >> fbi informant now breaking his silence on the uranium one scandal. tying the clintons to a bribery scheme set up by the russians they told it was shoe in. >> we have brand new just released messages from lisa page and peter strzok. page writes

i had no intentions of disparaging rob. i had been in contact with rob a lot many the last two weeks as he gave me some warning that stories might break and knew that people might be sniffing around my blog post. >> he warned you this might come out? >> yeah. >> was he concerned about that? >> yeah, he had asked me multiple times to take down my instagram posts. >> you hadn't named any names and talked in general about the experience. >> right. i had done so with the intention of reaching people who may need to hear that message and see what it's like on the other side to have that hope and rob was aware of that post when it went out a yiear ago and asked me to take it down two weeks ago. i think in anticipation of me being questioned about it. >> did he ever ask you to deny? >> no. we were in contact even a couple of days ago as he was asking me to release a statement about my blog post. i went back and forth with him about what language i would be comfortable with. the language he asked i wasn't comfortable with. he came

any thoughts on rob porter? >> no questions. >>> happening now, vice president mike pence is on capitol hill as the senate is currently beginning open-ended debate on immigration. the white house has been pushing these four pillars. they want a path to citizenship, a $25 billion trust for a wall and other improvements, an end to the diversity visa lottery and limiting chain migration. my next guest has been fighting for daca recipients. joining me now is congressman curbelo, he represents the south florida area. good to see you. we are getting the debate as promised in the senate. it is a little open-ended. but mitch mcconnell had promised democrats that they will get a debate and they are having a debate. what do you think emerges from this? because we don't have a debate scheduled for the houts rigse r now. >> first thing i want to do is thank leader mcconnell for keeping his word and i want to encourage senate democrats to allow the debate to begin. they have not yielded back what they call possess-cloture ti

porter. >> do you believe rob porter's ex-wives? >> reporter: and the allegations of domestic abuse has raised critical questions about the security clearance process for west wing staffers. at a hearing, christopher wray disclosed what he knew about the background check and said they completed their investigation last summer. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. soon there after, we received requests for follow-up inquiry and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november and then we administratively closed the file in january. >> that appeared to qulakt top white house officials have said for days, that the background investigation was not finished. >> it was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. the clearance was never denialed and he resigned. >> today, the aides to the president tried a new message. >> they had not made the final adjudication because the process was still ongoing when he

i have -- i had no intentions of disparaging rob. i had been in contact with rob a lot in the last two weeks as he gave me some warning that stories might break and knew that people might be sniffing around my blog post. >> he warned you that this might come out? >> yeah. yeah. >> was he concerned about that? >> yeah, he had asked me multiple times to take down my instagram post. >> you'd done a blog post where you hadn't named names. >> no. >> just talked in general about your experience. >> right. and i had done so with the intention of reaching people who may need to hear that message and see what it's like on the other side. to have that hope. and rob was aware of that post when it originally went out a little less than a year ago. and again asked me to take it down two weeks ago. i think in anticipation of me being questioned about it. >> did he ever ask you to deny? >> no. we were in contact, even a couple of days ago, as he was asking me to release a statement about my blog post. and i went back and forth with him for an hour

rob: it's all about the drivers of this correction.said before, we think it is inflation that is the driver. when inflation is the driver, inflation is good for spain and italy and greece. it is good across most emerging markets. many people would think it is surprising the mexican peso is up 4% year-to-date. there's been virtually no volatility. spain has rallied year-to-date. it's the assets that have the most overpriced valuation having kicked into a correction by this inflation scare. that would be bunds and treasuries, and that has kicked over into the u.s. equity markets. those assets will benefit. greek bonds have done quite well. bonnie: the eu has to inflate its way out of the debt. in a way it is good for them. i would also point out the ecb has been buying a lot of credit. even though the program is a lot smaller, only 30 billion, they are buying the same amount of credit as they were when they were 80 billion. and mixed between sovereigns and credit. the peripherals are trading like credit. you are seeing that support the s

the president said rob porter maintained innocence. he never talked about stories of abuse of the former wives. as this moves on, one question here remains at the white house. security clearance. 30 to 40 officials in the white house and political appointees operating under temporary security clearance. cl including jared kushner. questions remain today on this. even one week later. christine and dave. >> let's talk about that budget. you are right. the white house released the 2019 budget blueprint. with the two-year spending bill, this budget will not be adopted by congress. it showcases the president's priorities for government spending. $200 billion to spur infrastructure spending. $23 billion for border security. including funding for a wall. $17 billion to fight the opioid especially em i-- epidemic. imagine food delivery for food stamp recipients. or privatizes the nasa space station. $666 billion, one of the largest in u.s. history. this cuts deficits in ten years. the president recently signed two deficit increasing bills. the

delivered their completed report on rob porter. as of tonight it seems nothing fbi director christopher wray says about this is going to fit the lies being told by the trump white house. joining us now, william yeomans who spent 26 years at the justice department and was the former chief counsel on the senate judiciary committee. also with us matt miller, former spokesperson for attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. and bill yeomans, what happens next, particularly with the fbi director? surely the next time he is testifying at congress, he is going to be asked about this. reporter mace have access to the director before the next time he testifies to congress. we're going to hear more from him. >> well, i think we will. and i think what you've set up really indicates something that's been missing in this whole affair which is serious congressional oversight. this is a situation when congress should really step up. and of course under republican leadership, that is not happening. so, yeah, the fbi director will appe

clearly rob porter was. the question is, who else within this administration, and you know, there are dozens of members of this administration who have been unable at this point to get permanent security clearances. who else within this administration has skeletons in their closet that are waiting to come out to the public because the white house either is unwilling to investigate or just doesn't care and is hoping that it won't leak out? >> hugh, phil, i have a question for you. we heard something from this white house yesterday. i was in the front row. i don't think i've heard it in the course of the last year-plus covering the trump administration, this white house. raj shah, the deputy press secretary, said, i think we would agree that we could have done things better in the last few days, last few hours. >> well, that's good. and i hope that admitting mistakes, admitting dropped balls does not in any way -- >> does the president agree with admitting mistakes or was this a riff the president will not be